Sec. 111. National prevalence survey on harassment in employment
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The Bureau of the Census, the Commission, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall jointly develop a national prevalence survey on the prevalence of prohibited harassment in employment (referred to in this section as the national prevalence survey ). Such survey shall be administered by the Bureau of the Census not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter. The national prevalence survey shall include questions designed to collect such information from individuals as may be necessary to examine existing beliefs, attitudes, and understanding of prohibited harassment in employment, and the extent to which such harassment is experienced or observed by individuals, supervisors, and employers, including the information necessary for the report described in subsection (c).
Not later than 6 months after each national prevalence survey has been administered, the Bureau of the Census, the Commission, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall jointly prepare and submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives a report on the results of that survey. The report under this subsection shall include, at minimum— information about the extent to which individuals experience prohibited harassment in employment on the basis of sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, sex stereotype, sex characteristics, and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, and uniformed service status, and information about the interaction of different characteristics that may be the basis of harassment in employment; information about the prevalence of each such form of prohibited harassment in employment, disaggregated by industry and salary level, including across all wage bands; and an analysis of the economic impacts of prohibited harassment.
The report under this subsection shall separately, and in the aggregate, report each of the following bases of sex harassment: Sexual orientation. Gender identity. Pregnancy. Childbirth. A medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth. A sex stereotype. Sexual in nature. The report shall be made publicly available on the websites of the Bureau of the Census, the Commission, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are authorized to be appropriated for the Bureau of the Census to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year the national prevalence survey is to be administered under subsection
(a)or the report is to be submitted under subsection (c).